
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Environmental cleaning & the role of patient service assistants
In this podcast, Brett Mitchell talks to A/Professor Stéphane Bouchoucha about a recent article exploring the role of patient service assistants in environmental cleaning. The article is published in Infection Disease and Health. https://www.idhjournal.com.au/article/S2468-0451(22)00006-2/fulltext
Dr Stéphane Bouchoucha is an Associate Professor and Associate Head of School (International) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Deakin University. He is also a researcher based in Deakin’s Institute for Health Transformation and the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control President-Elect.
3 years ago
We call them ”help nurse” in my country. And they play a major role in each department. Cleaning, disinfecting, and help nurses with patients’ bath, and also porting samples to labs.